Funimation Extractor not working with age restricted shows

Checklist

• [ x] I’m reporting a broken site support
• [x ] I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
• [x ] I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x ] I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [x ] I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

C:\Users\nicho\AppData\Roaming\nm-yt-downloader>youtube-dl.exe --cookies funimation.com_cookies.txt https://www.funimation.com/en/shows/mushoku-tensei-jobless-reincarnation/jobless-reincarnation/ -v [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [‘–cookies’, ‘funimation.com_cookies.txt’, ‘https://www.funimation.com/en/shows/mushoku-tensei-jobless-reincarnation/jobless-reincarnation/’, ‘-v’] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06 [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3 [debug] Proxy map: {} [Funimation] jobless-reincarnation: Downloading webpage [Funimation] 1376136: Downloading JSON metadata ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError(‘items’,)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py”, line 534, in extract File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\funimation.py”, line 121, in _real_extract KeyError: ‘items’ Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py”, line 534, in extract File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\funimation.py”, line 121, in _real_extract KeyError: ‘items’

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py”, line 815, in wrapper File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py”, line 836, in __extract_info File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py”, line 547, in extract youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError(‘items’,)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

The funimation extractor is not working on shows that require an account with mature content restriction turned off even when providing the cookies for a valid account with mature content restriction turned off

[joshbrown50]

Thanks a ton for helping me!

[joshbrown50]

So weirdly enough, there were backslashes in my config file, but I decided to put 2 slashes for every one and now its working